CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned his ministry on Wednesday amid speculation he was going to mount a bid to topple Prime Minister Julia Gillard, plunging the nation’s minority government into a new crisis. Rudd told a news conference in Washington he would return to Australia this week before deciding his future, but ended his announcement asking his ruling Labor party colleagues “who is best placed to defeat (opposition leader) Tony Abbott at the next election?. …
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